In a January 21, 2013, issue of Forbes magazine, entitled “Why Rating Your Doctor Is Bad For Your Health,” Kai Falkenberg described a downside to doctor rating, doctors giving patients care that the patient wanted but that the doctor didn’t think was needed, or worse, that was even harmful. The article suggested that doctor rating […]

Health Outcomes Research in Medicine, a leading medical journal that focuses on patient care and treatment efficacy, just listed the 25 most downloaded articles from their website, http://www.healthoutcomesresearch.org, and DrScore’s research on patient satisfaction in outpatient populations is currently the top article. The article uses DrScore’s deep database of patient satisfaction data to examine patient […]

When we look at doctors who have a lot of ratings, it isn’t unusual to see lots of high ratings and an occasional low rating. The average score of these doctors is very high. But if you took a whole lot of doctors like that and they only had one rating each, the average […]

At one of my recent talks, a doctor expressed his concern with the evolution of systems that will begin rating the quality of doctors. He described how if a very sick patient is transferred to his care and the patient dies—for reasons totally beyond the doctor’s control—it would cause his quality score to look very […]

Happy New Year. Time for new year’s resolutions. Let’s resolve to do our part to make American medical care the best it can be. You can help today by giving your doctor the feedback he or she needs to do what they most want, to give their patients great medical care. Go to www.DrScore.com today […]

It is hard to put terrible tragedies in perspective. While the magnitude isn’t the same, this principle applies to doctor rating, too. There are 2 to 3 million office visits to physicians in the United States every day, some 800 million per year. How many make the cover of the newspapers? Fortunately, no more than […]

States across the country are facing budget crises. With health care spending being such a large part of state budgets, cuts to health care expenditures are surely coming. Arizona has proposed a number of measures to cut costs. One is a fee charged to Medicaid-enrollees who engage in unhealthy activity. Another is to cut payments […]

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